Compensation Quotes

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order. View quote
Cary Grant
This is a world of compensation and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, can not long retain it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. View quote
Rene Cassin
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. View quote
Jose Ramos-Horta
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much. View quote
Billy Sheehan
The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power. (Alfred Adler)
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. View quote
William Barclay
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. View quote
Boris Spassky
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments. View quote
Michio Kushi
During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to another planet. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things. View quote
Dinah Craik
There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail. View quote
Joseph Campbell
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself of the better portion of your just compensation. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance. View quote
Laura Riding
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. View quote
Jack Welch
Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment. (Calvin Coolidge)
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. View quote
John W. Campbell
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. View quote
Warren Buffett
As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation. View quote
Günter Brus
From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a 'disutility'; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice. View quote
E. F. Schumacher